ROSES FOR THE SOUTH. 



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Yellow Leaves. — They are plant moans. Whenever 

 you see them in your window, be sure that the plant 

 which shows them is suffering. It has had too much 

 water and the pot is poorly drained, or the air is dry and 

 hot, and you have not sprinkled its leaves or washed the 

 dust from them lately, or its roots are dry and thirsty, 

 and the soil hard and baked about them, or insects are 



sucking its life away, and it is blooming itself to death 

 on insufficient plant-food. Oh, plants suffer from a score 

 of ills ! Find out the cause of the yellow leaves, and put 

 an end to the trouble ; then pick off the yellow leaves 

 and burn or bury them in the soil contained in the pots, 

 so that when decayed they will add to its fertility. 

 Xorlh Carolina. K. E. 



ROSES FOR THE SOUTH. 



SOME FINE YELLOW VARIETIES FOUND PROFITABLE 



SOUTHERN GEORGIA. 



jN THIS semi-tropical climate of 

 Southern Georgia, where excessive 

 drouths often prevail, we must se- 

 lect varieties of roses that have 

 deep, far-reaching roots capable of 

 gathering moisture from a good 

 depth. To test all the new and 

 old sorts with reference to this 

 quality would require from amateurs any amount of 

 time, patience and expenditure that might well dismay 

 them, if old cultivators did not occasionally lend notes of 

 experience. The roses named below all rank high for 

 beauty, fragrance and profuse bloom, and all are hardy, 

 vigorous growers in this southern climate. 



All the yellow teas grow readily and luxuriantly here 

 in the open air, requiring only 

 a suitable soil and reasonable 

 amount of moisture ; thus we are 

 saved the necessity of span-roofed 

 houses or good brick pits. Mad- 

 ame Honore Defresne, one of the 

 new yellow teas, has proved so 

 satisfactory in every respect that 

 I feel justified in giving it the first 

 place. It is globular in form, and 

 in color a deep golden yellow, 

 with coppery shadings. The foli- 

 age is beautiful and abundant, 

 and free from blight and mildew. 

 Both bud and blossom are de- 

 liciously fragrant and of perfect 

 form. My first plant is four years old, and 

 from it I have rooted spring cuttings, all of 

 which give good flowers. 



I beg Etoile de Lyon's pardon for placing 

 her second, but in justice I could not do other- 

 wise. This, also is a vigorous grower, and 

 while it has not all the grace and beauty of the 

 first, is still a magnificent rose. It is globular 

 in form, with exquisitely folded buds. Its 

 color is clear lemon-yellow, deepening toward 

 the center. Ellwanger, in his book on roses, 

 calls Etoile de Lyon a rival of Perle des Jar- 

 dins. Under the most favorable circumstances 

 it might possibly prove a rival of Honore De- 

 fresne, but in this sunny southland they are both far 

 ahead of Perle des Jardins. 



Mad. Caroline Kuster, during its first year of bloom 

 was a lovely pale yellow, with a fain tshade of pink at the 

 base of the petals ; now in its fourth year it has changed 

 in color to tawny-rose and is double its former size. 

 The cuttings from this rose root very readily, and give 

 flowers of a tawny-rose color. This is a good bedding rose. 



Safrano is a beautiful and satisfactory tea of a 

 Jersey-cream color, shading to apricot-yellow. It has 



M.i-DAME Honore Defresne. 



beautiful buds, and should be a prime favorite with all 

 who love loose-petaled roses ; this also is a good bedder. 



